Nice video! I'm really tempted to buy this camera, but i heard scary complaints about the aperture control mechanism having a gear that tends to break with time and the film door latch breaking down. Do you have any experience with this? Do you find it is a reliable camera? Thanks in advance!
An amazing camera that offers so many possibilities and yet so easy and intuitive to use. I have heard that Minolta was not a popular brand among professional photographers, despite being technologically advanced.. All the same, I am not sure that it is entirely fair to say that it is, or was, an "underrated" camera. Thomas Maschke's book about the camera and its use: "Minolta Dynax 7" is great but it only exists in German. I so wish someone would translate it to English.
I was fortunate to find my Dynax 7 as "defective" with the 100-300mm APO zoom for just 150€ last year, it would get the "battery low" warning even on a set of fresh batteries....turned out the contacts just needed a brief cleaning :) It's a great camera, one of the most modern in terms of handling, the gigantic (for an analogue camera) LCD display makes changing any settings a breeze. I also got the battery grip to be able to use it with normal AA batteries, and just ordered a few brass replacement gears in case the aperture mechanism ever breaks on mine.
When I got into DSLR photography, I was running Minolta/Sony A-mount and decided to go backward to film photography, it was the Maxxum 7 that I obtained. It was a great camera, my issue was just that film was not for me. I had a ton of trouble with processing, the results were terrible with lots of dust and scratches embedded in the film images. I am not sure if it was my fault or the film processor but it was costly so I gave up on film. The camera itself was very nice and felt quite familiar switching back and forth between my Sony DSLR's and this.
The lcd seems to suffer from the same problem as many old gameboys from the 90's, btw how do you develop the film? the last place that did that in my country sent all the film to Belgium for developing and then back to my country! and then finally covid killed that, so I guess you gotta have your own developing room now.
If you shoot regular B/W, it's very easy to develop at home :) C-41 is also doable, just needs more chemicals and a heated water bath (for example by sous vide device) for the development step.
Nice video! I'm really tempted to buy this camera, but i heard scary complaints about the aperture control mechanism having a gear that tends to break with time and the film door latch breaking down. Do you have any experience with this? Do you find it is a reliable camera? Thanks in advance!
An amazing camera that offers so many possibilities and yet so easy and intuitive to use. I have heard that Minolta was not a popular brand among professional photographers, despite being technologically advanced.. All the same, I am not sure that it is entirely fair to say that it is, or was, an "underrated" camera.
Thomas Maschke's book about the camera and its use: "Minolta Dynax 7" is great but it only exists in German. I so wish someone would translate it to English.
I was fortunate to find my Dynax 7 as "defective" with the 100-300mm APO zoom for just 150€ last year, it would get the "battery low" warning even on a set of fresh batteries....turned out the contacts just needed a brief cleaning :)
It's a great camera, one of the most modern in terms of handling, the gigantic (for an analogue camera) LCD display makes changing any settings a breeze.
I also got the battery grip to be able to use it with normal AA batteries, and just ordered a few brass replacement gears in case the aperture mechanism ever breaks on mine.
When I got into DSLR photography, I was running Minolta/Sony A-mount and decided to go backward to film photography, it was the Maxxum 7 that I obtained. It was a great camera, my issue was just that film was not for me. I had a ton of trouble with processing, the results were terrible with lots of dust and scratches embedded in the film images. I am not sure if it was my fault or the film processor but it was costly so I gave up on film. The camera itself was very nice and felt quite familiar switching back and forth between my Sony DSLR's and this.
film processor imo
The lcd seems to suffer from the same problem as many old gameboys from the 90's, btw how do you develop the film? the last place that did that in my country sent all the film to Belgium for developing and then back to my country! and then finally covid killed that, so I guess you gotta have your own developing room now.
Oh, that’s sad my dad worked with multiple companies in Belgium that developed film.
If you shoot regular B/W, it's very easy to develop at home :)
C-41 is also doable, just needs more chemicals and a heated water bath (for example by sous vide device) for the development step.
This was a decent Y2K 35mm camera, minues questionably build quality. I didn't own one but a friend did. Preferred my Canon eos1v
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